Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Release : 2001
Genre : Transportation
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems and Agency Operations by : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board

Download or read book Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems and Agency Operations written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the Conference on Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems and Agency Operations was to bring together a group of government, academic, and business leaders who have experience in performance measures for transportation systems as well as performance-based planning and programming to address the following: Organizational approaches to implementing and using performance measures in transportation systems, including the connection between performance measures and decision making; Implementation experience regarding the state of the practice as well as lessons and guidelines for moving forward; Customer perspectives of transportation system performance; Application of multimodal measures in the planning process and the assessment of system performance; and Technical issues involving data, number and type of measures, and trade-off analysis. Agency operations were addressed in the context of how operations affect performance measurement programs or how these programs can affect operations and decision making.